Moshe Vardi

'''Moshe Ya'akov Vardi''' () is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, United States. and a faculty advisor for the Ken Kennedy Institute. His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite model theory, knowledge of multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and reasoning, and teaching logic across the curriculum. He is an expert in model checking, constraint satisfaction and database theory, common knowledge (logic), and theoretical computer science.

Vardi has authored or co-authored over 700 technical papers as well as editing several collections. He has authored the books ''Reasoning About Knowledge'' with Ronald Fagin, Joseph Halpern, and Yoram Moses, and ''Finite Model Theory and Its Applications'' with Erich Grädel, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Leonid Libkin, Maarten Marx, Joel Spencer, Yde Venema, and Scott Weinstein. He is senior editor of Communications of the ACM, after serving as its editor-in-chief for a decade. Provided by Wikipedia